ADAM REIST

Adam Reist's career in the entertainment industry has spanned over two decades. Adam is currently President and Creative Director of Coastline Pictures a boutique video production company he co-founded. From 2004 to 2009 he was a Director on CBS’s daytime drama “Guiding Light.”  Besides his work on Guiding Light, he directed The Future of Media for Procter and Gamble’s Upper Management Team. Adam has lectured at Yale Drama, Pace University and the Lee Strasberg Institute. Adam is the Guest Director for Soap Opera Mania on Tour. In 2008 Adam was the Show Runner for Emo-4 an experimental interactive web series on NetStudio.com. Adam has directed three short films; the critically acclaimed Supertalk starring Kathleen Chalfant and Billy Crudup, the award winning Back to One and the award winning The Last Lunch.  Adam co-produced all three films and co-wrote Supertalk.  He has performed on and produced three CDs with his band Twist of Fate. Adam wrote most of the original material on all three CDs. Before becoming a Director, Adam worked as a Stage Manager and Assistant to the Executive Producer on “Guiding Light.”  In 1986, while attending the University of North Carolina, Adam created the college soap opera “General College” which was picked up by the National College Television Network (NCTV) and broadcasted nation wide. To this day, “General College” remains in production and re-runs still air in Charlotte and Chapel Hill, NC. Adam was a member of the 2004 DGA Award winning Outstanding Drama Series Directing team and 1994 Daytime Emmy winner for Outstanding Drama Series Directing Team. Adam is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and The University of North Carolina’s Order of the Golden Fleece.